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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the SPEER EL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
682
Elementary
DISTRICT 539 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ARLINGTON ISD·NCES 480870000264
Speer Elementary School
811 FULLER ST, ARLINGTON, TX 76012 · (682) 867-4000 · Tarrant County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL682 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
650 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 107 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 87 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 26% smaller than its 6th grade class (87).
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
29.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +17.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
25.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +7.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 17 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 11.0% | 18.0% | 23.0% | 48.0% |
| Mathematics | 9.0% | 16.0% | 30.0% | 45.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 29.0% | 25.0% |
| 2024-25 | 28.0% | 27.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 29.0% |
| 2022-23 | 22.0% | 20.0% |
| 2021-22 | 23.0% | 25.0% |
| 2020-21 | 12.0% | 18.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Speer Elementary School
Speer Elementary School's state test result (23.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speer Elementary School this school | 682 | 95.3% | 23.5% |
| Anson Jones Elementary School BRYAN | 695 | 94.2% | 40.4% |
| Dover Elementary School RICHARDSON | 698 | 96.6% | 24.0% |
| Smith Elementary School HOUSTON | 730 | 96.8% | 34.4% |
| Best Elementary School HOUSTON | 655 | 93.0% | 23.9% |
| Annie Webb Blanton Elementary School DALLAS | 685 | 97.8% | 45.5% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Speer Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #4,129 of 4,401 | #299 of 330 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.0% | #4,195 of 4,466 ▼ 246 | #314 of 339 ▼ 24 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #4,301 of 4,466 ▼ 59 | #324 of 339 ▼ 10 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.0pp | #1,969 of 3,998 | #146 of 320 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 682 | #1,030 of 4,938 | #44 of 353 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.8:1 | #2,292 of 4,622 | #181 of 348 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.1% | #3,600 of 4,628 | #315 of 348 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.3% | #466 of 4,789 | #22 of 341 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.6% | #2,248 of 2,838 | #196 of 242 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
682
-19 (-3%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 890
Student : Teacher
14.8:1
was 13.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 682 | 46 | 14.8:1 | 95% (650) |
| 2023-24 | 660 | 45.1 | 14.6:1 | 96% (636) |
| 2022-23 | 683 | 41.3 | 16.5:1 | 94% (643) |
| 2020-21 | 701 | 53 | 13.2:1 | 95% (664) |
| 2017-18 | 738 | 46.3 | 15.9:1 | 89% (658) |
| 2015-16 | 802 | 49 | 16.4:1 | 93% (745) |
| 2010-11 | 861 | 52 | 16.6:1 | 96% (824) |
| 2000-01 | 905 | 53 | 17.1:1 | 88% (793) |
| 1990-91 | 890 | 46 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Speer Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (738 to 682); teachers down 1% (46.3 to 46).
About Speer Elementary School
Speer Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in ARLINGTON, Texas, under ARLINGTON ISD. The school serves pre-K through 6. Enrollment is 682 students. Elementary schools in Texas have about 519 students on average; enrollment here is 31% higher.
In ARLINGTON ISD, 75 schools enroll a combined 53,394 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Speer Elementary School is 86%. The next largest groups are 9% Black and 3% White. The school's Hispanic share is 56 points above the 30% share among Tarrant County residents. The diversity index for Speer Elementary School is 25%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Speer Elementary School reports a ratio of 14.8 students per teacher, from 46 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Texas is about 15.1:1. Lunch program data show 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Tarrant County averages 63%, lower than here.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Speer Elementary School is -9.4 points: 23.5% actual, 33.0% predicted.
In Tarrant County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $84,207 a year, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Speer Elementary School, Tarrant County has 639 public schools.
Webb Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 41.4%; Speer Elementary School's is 23.5%, ranking 6th of 6.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Speer Elementary School had a net loss of 19 students, or 3%. The ratio was 13.2:1 in 2020-21 and 14.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ARLINGTON ISD
- Martin High SchoolHigh · 3,535 students
- Sam Houston High SchoolHigh · 3,208 students
- Arlington High SchoolHigh · 2,580 students
- Lamar High SchoolHigh · 2,457 students
- Bowie High SchoolHigh · 2,140 students
- Seguin High SchoolHigh · 1,554 students
Other schools in ARLINGTON
- Martin High SchoolHigh · 3,535 students
- Sam Houston High SchoolHigh · 3,208 students
- Arlington High SchoolHigh · 2,580 students
- Lamar High SchoolHigh · 2,457 students
- Bowie High SchoolHigh · 2,140 students
- Mansfield Timberview High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
Nearby schools
- Webb Elementary School0.4 mi · 608
- Newman International Academy of Arlington Gibbins0.5 mi · 476
- Jean Massieu Academy0.6 mi · 185
- Kooken Ed Center0.7 mi · 233
- Community Based PK0.7 mi · 55
- Wimbish World Language Academy0.8 mi · 411
Frequently asked questions
About Speer Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Speer Elementary School?
Speer Elementary School enrolls approximately 682 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Speer Elementary School serve?
Speer Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Speer Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Speer Elementary School is approximately 14.8:1 (46 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Speer Elementary School?
Speer Elementary School reports a student body of 3% White, 86% Hispanic, 9% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Speer Elementary School?
Speer Elementary School is overseen by ARLINGTON ISD in Tarrant County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.